A Diary of a Curator's Podcast
This Art Podcast is a platform for me, Chaitya Dhanvi Shah, to speak about what I think "serves the art ecosystem."
Episodes
November 30, 2022 • 25 mins
Behind the Scenes | The Fine Art of Fine Arts | Janvi Sonaiya, Editor, Vibes of India in conversation with Author and Curator, Chaitya Dhanvi Shah.
Find Out : How and Why did I write the book? How I became the seeker and the artist a giver? How did the conversation start as a casual chat and turn out to be necessary documentation for the art ecosystem? What does the book offer? What is Shyam Sharma as a person like? Can aesthetics ...
Find Out : How and Why did I write the book? How I became the seeker and the artist a giver? How did the conversation start as a casual chat and turn out to be necessary documentation for the art ecosystem? What does the book offer? What is Shyam Sharma as a person like? Can aesthetics ...
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April 15, 2022 • 14 mins
This podcast is about the exhibition Naam. Namak. Nishan. which is a tribute to the spirit and culture of Indian soldiers who are focused and dedicated to seeking the good name of our country and the regiment they belong to, loyalty to the salt they are indebted to their motherland and protecting the Indian flag along with their regiment's flag from the enemies.
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January 27, 2021 • 6 mins
Experimental by nature, Kashyap Parikh is a multidimensional artist who has many styles and does not limit himself to working with one medium. There are Prakaar (variants) in shapes, colours, medium, size, genre, tones, lines, and the list goes on. Prakaar is endless. This series is all about one artist and diverse Prakaar. To compose it short, one can say his body of work is interlaced with spirituality and humanity. It is about e...
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September 4, 2020 • 10 mins
Can a city influence an artist and his art? Yes, it does. Sometimes, directly and many times indirectly. But, yes it does and that’s how Boys From Delhi came on the surface. In this case, apart from looking at the aesthetic value, the scale of artwork, visual beauty and investment opportunity, I was more interested in finding one common element in all the artworks that reflected the essence of Delhi. Just like there is diversity in...
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July 6, 2020 • 51 secs
What would the artist be thinking while creating this work? At times many of us may feel, how haphazard abstraction can be? No rules, no boundaries. Well, that's the beauty of an abstract work. Such works allow the artist and viewer complete freedom to paint, interpret, and feel the work from their own perspective. Shri Nerurkar has brilliantly used minimal forms and maximum space. What a treat to watch this kind of composition...
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July 6, 2020 • 55 secs
For me, the concept of ‘rural India’ plays a very important role in an artwork. It carries forward the rich legacy of our forefather's traditions and culture. Apart from being a great thinker, Ratilal Kansodaria is a very brave artist. The USP of the work is its 'subject' which we generally do not see these days. This work is a poetry of his love for the concept of coexistence between nature and men. In such concept-ba...
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July 6, 2020 • 52 secs
What is Shanta Samant, the creator of this sculpture capable of? The anatomy of the figure is not real, the shapes are exaggerated and there is hardly any expression on the face you can see still you 'connect' with this sculpture. That is what a champion sculptor is for me. Her execution of the subject is amazing. Sculptures like this are more of a pet. The more they stay around you the more they become part of your life. I...
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July 6, 2020 • 56 secs
Who paints leaves? Isn't it a very easy job to paint leaves? In my opinion, only a person with deep philosophy can paint a minimal object. I think the more the simpler object, the greater the philosophy. Considering it, I think Shri Mirza, the artist, would have undergone a lot of philosophical difficulties and must have 'unlearned' what he has learned to reach here. The layers of colours in the background create a foun...
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July 6, 2020 • 57 secs
In this work, the first striking element is the use of ‘yellow’. You don't see many works that have such tones of yellow used in this proportion. The style of this work is a mix of conceptual and surrealism. Another interesting element to note here is the originality of the artist style. Everyone paints trees. But, what is important to note for an emerging artist is how to create your own ‘tree’. The same goes for faces. The va...
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July 6, 2020 • 57 secs
Just like music can heal the soul, can paintings do the same? Yes, it can. The way artist Manoj Kachangal has composed the work definitely takes the viewer in his ‘Antar Yatra’. The shades of orange and yellow gives the viewer a positive energy and hope. The repetitive patches I would like to depict as one’s thoughts. In a fraction of seconds, we think of 100s of situations. Some are like red which may be of concern to us while som...
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July 6, 2020 • 58 secs
There are few works that are abstract but have emotions in it. This work by Bhanu Shah is a fine blend cocktail of music and colours, harmony, and melody. I like to experiment by watching artworks in different ways. From my experience I can say, the most engrossing way to enjoy Shah’s this series is to view it while playing some Indian classical music in the background. This music gives an additional booster to ‘feel’ Shah's wo...
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July 6, 2020 • 56 secs
What is that one thing which is common in this work? Considering the colour, medium, expression, and the object ie.the ‘Bull’, ‘Power’ is the keyword here. The use of black, free and rhythmic strokes, the depth of charcoal and the force of the bull symbolically gives a different ‘High’ to the viewer. The artist has wonderfully controlled the uncontrolled force of the bull. Another thing to be noticed here is how Avijit Roy has inte...
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July 6, 2020 • 49 secs
Welcome to the show - In a minute with a diary of a curator. Thank you all for liking season 1. I hope you will find Season 2 exciting as well.
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July 6, 2020 • 1 min
In season one my focus was on figurative artworks. In this series, I would like to talk about how execution is important in an artwork. In our day to day lives, every subject is seen before, every colour is used before, every emotion is felt before, forms, composition nothing is original in this world. There are millions of paintings in this world with the same animal as the subject, art related to music, abstraction in context to ...
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June 27, 2020 • 11 mins
BTC is a show where the viewers/readers get to know about the functioning of the art market that takes place Behind The Canvas! When a collector buys an artwork he is not only buying someone’s extraordinaire skills but also emotions, ideology and or philosophy of someone who is deeply engrossed in a subject since a long time (in the case of senior artists) and a passionate person with a vision (in the case of emerging one’s). Let’s...
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May 1, 2020 • 12 mins
A very close friend of mine kept saying ‘Chaitya, 2020 is the year!’ It will not only bring him a girlfriend and luck but happiness, parties, and tonnes of money in the stock exchange. Waiting for 2020 to come, we all were excited and wished what he said to come 'true'. By the time 2020 came, the world saw the worst of Australia fire bush and then the major pandemic Corona Virus which definitely did not bring my friend a gi...
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April 24, 2020 • 48 secs
The overpowering cubist structure, strong rustic colours, and seamless bold lines prove that the artist Sunil Yadav is in complete command over his figure. The use of various shapes like circles, semi-circles, triangles, and cubes gives a character to this tribal-like looking figure. However, what makes it even more fascinating is how he has expressed himself and his figure through these intense lines using different tones. The str...
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April 21, 2020 • 55 secs
Colours, composition and facial expressions are some of the key elements of figurative painting. But, here the artist Dipendra Pal has defined the figurative or portrait work with the use of fine, strong, sharp, thick, thin, straight, curvy, blur, wavy lines which holds its own character and depth. The minimal use of colours goes well with the subject. I liked the fact that he has played with two colours. It lets the viewer focus o...
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April 17, 2020 • 44 secs
When I see this painting, my mind starts reading things fast. Probably, because of its speedy lines, the overpowering black and carefree strokes. However, having so many thoughts in a few seconds it does not affect my mind to go crazy. The calm and soothing expressions of this figure handle the chaos in a viewer’s mind. This is what I like the most in this work whereby the artist Gurmeet Marwah has control over his figure and subje...
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April 14, 2020 • 56 secs
What is the first word that comes to your mind while looking at this work? Delicacy? From the use of colours, subject, figure to expression everything is cute. Not many paintings look cute. This work proves that not every painting needs to be bold or have strong colours to attract the viewer. What is important is how you portray your subject in order to convey your message. The tones of blue in the background and tones of red make...
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